HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081209710
Bassin de Tsavo River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 5 administrative regions : Kibwezi East, Mwatate, Taveta, Voi, Wundanyi
Sub-basin area
1 069,1km²
Upstream area
7 225,8km²
Discharge
26,73m³/s
Mean elev.
719m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tsavo River1094 km²
- Bassin de Kisima566 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 683.5 km²64.2% of basin
- 316.2 km²29.7% of basin
- 48.3 km²4.5% of basin
- Kibwezi EastMakueni · Kenya16.3 km²1.5% of basin
- Mwatate0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Tsavo West
IUCN IINational Park
712.24 km² overlap
Tsavo East
IUCN IINational Park
40.54 km² overlap
Tsavo Road and Railways
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
5.34 km² overlap
Mwaganini
IUCN Not ReportedCommunity Forest Reserve
0.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 196 distinct species · 16 167 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Tsavo River : 10 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,8°C
Annual rain
856mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
78mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
723mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
362cm
Forest
3%
Crops
17%
Urban
1%
Protected
72%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)